Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
For example, a recent phone call I had with a young entrepreneur straight out of one of the most prestigious engineering schools in America he asked, “I have an offer for $400,000 in seed money but the VC wants me to agree now to bring in a new CEO.&# This company is doing its SEED round and they already want to bring someone new in.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.
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www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. It can be difficult -- without experience building software -- to make an informed choice which is most suitable. PHP is insecure? Ruby on Rails doesnt scale?
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. In essense, let the market design the product.
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
“I wouldn’t expect anyone except seed investors to complain about it,” Graham says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. The Week in Review. ” Put another way: Maples is right.
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